1/ Average gasoline prices in the US could rise to an all-time record of $5.50, and much higher in some states, if the Strait of Hormuz does not reopen by the end of June. Citigroup warns that the world's oil inventories risk falling to record low levels. ⬇️

2/ A new report published by Citi sets out scenarios for the current impasse in the Strait of Hormuz, while other analysts say it could take nine months for things to return to normal even if a peace agreement is signed. Citi's analysts predict three possible outcomes:

3/ 1️⃣ A ceasefire extension is signed this week, oil tanker traffic resumes, flows recover through May, and pre-war levels resume by the end of June. A total of 900 million barrels of oil production is lost since the start of the Iran war.

🧵🚨 THREAD: How the Charlottesville rally and SPLC birthed an entire billion-dollar-plus "democracy" ecosystem 🚨

11 federal counts. Wire fraud. Money laundering conspiracy. But here's what the SPLC headlines are missing:

• The indictment describes a paid informant in the leadership chat that PLANNED Unite the Right
• That informant "helped coordinate transportation" to the rally... at SPLC's direction
• There is ONE publicly identified organizer whose documented role was transportation coordinator
• His Discord posts about running over protesters were made 26 DAYS before Heather Heyer was killed by a car
• The indictment says postings were made "under the supervision of the SPLC"
• Charlottesville then became the founding event for a billion-dollar political machine
• SPLC installed itself as that machine's definitional gatekeeper

I report. You draw your own conclusions.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇

It is NOT confirmed fact that Chesny, who appeared to be encouraging running over protesters, was SPLC's informant.

But the indictment (paragraph 11a) describes informant F-37, and it matches Chesny:

• Member of the online leadership chat that planned Unite the Right
• Attended Charlottesville (at SPLC's direction)
• Made racist postings (under SPLC's supervision)
• Helped coordinate transportation for attendees

Now here's why this matters beyond the fraud charges.

Charlottesville became the single most consequential founding event in modern American political infrastructure. Every one of these organizations says... in their own words.... that they exist or were transformed because of August 12, 2017.

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Welcome to the 4,000+ new followers this week.

You're going to see three main topics on this @grayzoneintel account. They're all interrelated, and it's imperative that you understand how they function.

A quick explainer thread 🧵🔽

1. Local Intelligence. You don't need to be former intel to produce local intel. You already do this.

Intelligence informs your decision-making and drives operations. I'm here to teach how to formalize it, and the kinds of local intel you need for the upcoming unpleasantness.

2. Organizing and counter-organizing. There is no reason to "wait around" for things to get spicy.

Build your team and organize community support behind you right now. That support translates to political and social power at the local level, which you will need to win.

OK - in Harvey Weinstein trial, now argument on prosecutor citing 2017 #MeToo articles about Weinstein. Judge Curtis: I'm going to tell the jury they can't consider it. Inner City Press is covering the trial & will live tweet, thread below matthewrussellleeicp.substack.com/p/metoo-re-do-…

ADA: Everyone knew this was coming... Now the jurors will wonder why.
Judge: They don't have a right to know. Anyway, Ms. Mann can testify to this
ADA: She's not on until next week

Judge Farber: So you'll have read-back?
ADA: Yes.
Judge: Bring in the jury. I'm going to tell them to disregard.
Jury entering!
[Unlike with other judges in 100 Centre, and nearly all in SDNY, gallery does not have to stand as jurors come in]

This (the screencapped tweet) is such a dishonest framing of what happened. They weren't measuring the length of those women's swimsuits cause dudes would get boners if it was 1/4 inch short. They set a concrete, objective standard.
People push up on the standard to destroy it.

https://twitter.com/HariSel57511397/status/2047011184931385790

So the ladies who want to push the boundaries wear something that's just a liiiittle shorter than the standard. The people who want no standard say, "Isn't this ridiculous?" Then it gets a little shorter. A little shorter.
Deconstruction to nothing by inches. We've all seen it.

Eventually we're too a point that the original people in the picture, even most of the ladies, probably, would consider absurd. A slippery slope "fallacy."
"Of course women aren't going to walk on the beach in a micro-thong & demand men don't get aroused! That's a strawman!"

I am not doing this because of @FinPlanKaluAja1 because I know he does know how things work, but since his man is not the one ruling, he will always find fault in almost everything this admin does. I am doing it for people who care to know.

So, let's address his questions: 👇

https://twitter.com/FinPlanKaluAja1/status/2047005186678469040

Govt money is nevet like pocket money you spend once. It is like a family budget, money comes in, but some big bills must be paid first.

Yes, subsidy was removed and the reason as well all know was because Nigeria was spending HUGE money just to keep petrol cheap, money that could build roads, schools, and hospitals and do many other great stuff.

I've posted a preprint that proposes enhancing the traceability of infectious clones by incorporating sequence signatures, to reduce biosafety risk

The method is technically feasible, cryptographically secure, and shouldn't disrupt virus biology 🧵

zenodo.org/records/196994…

@RepHarshbarger @SenJoniErnst 1/ Infectious clones (ICs) are synthetic viruses produced by transfecting a cell line with a plasmid construct that contains the virus genome

The cell line expresses the virus, which can then be recovered

(from ZLS's 2016 WIV1 IC paper):

2/ Using ICs is a way of resurrecting extinct viruses, or recovering novel viruses from metagenomic or transcriptomic datasets. It can also be used to genetically modify viruses by introducing novel mutations or creating chimeras, which result in dangerous Gain of Function

NEWS: Steve Witkoff's son Zach, who is a co-founder of the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial, was arrested after a New Year's Eve 2022 fight outside a Miami nightclub. When police searched his pockets, they found cocaine. Witkoff was charged and booked but never prosecuted:

thenewsground.com/bodycam-footag…

While detained, Witkoff tried to name-drop the club's owner. "I’m friends with Marc Roberts, I swear to God,”

Court records show that Witkoff was charged with felony possession of cocaine. A trial prosecutor was assigned, but voluntarily dismissed the case.

Under Biden, the cost of educating illegals reached ~$80B/year — a massive burden on American citizens.

Thanks to President Trump’s strong immigration policies, migrant school enrollment is plummeting — freeing up resources for American students and families.

🧵THREAD:

In Utah, educating illegals cost the state’s taxpayers $650+ million in 2023 — and lawmakers were forced to deploy emergency funding to keep up with the strain on the public school system.

This school year, Utah’s K-12 public schools saw the largest decrease in enrollment in 25 years — which the state superintendent attributed, in large part, to “slowing in-migration.”

2/

In Florida, educating illegals cost the state’s taxpayers $4 billion in 2023.

This school year, the number of foreign students entering Miami-Dade County Public Schools fell by more than 80%.

3/

Do you know that the major documents you need to open a Copart or IAA account are your CAC documents and your international passport?

When people hear of Copart and IAA, they think it's a complex process. This thread covers everything.

On Monday, we talked about the 3 major places to source cars from the U.S. Salvage Auctions, Clean Title/Dealer-Only Auctions, and Dealerships found on marketplaces like CarGurus, Edmunds. etc

Today, I'm walking you through how to set up your Copart account step by step.

Step 1- Registration

Go to copart dot com and click Register.

Select Business and fill in your name, email, and company name.

That's it for step one.

1/7 Absent an independent audit of AZ's taxpayer voucher program, two incomplete studies are filling the void. As @CraigHarrisNews discovered, one by ADE inadvertently revealed banned & non-receipt items are being labeled as "allowable." An EdChoice study was so deficient that it

ignored an entire ESA spending category (Debit, AKA Pre-Pay). Asked why, EdChoice President Robert Enlow and researcher Susan Pendergrass initially told 12News those expenses (roughly $60 million +) were already included in Reimbursement data. That was false. Enlow later

corrected the record and said they don't have the data. EdChoice also did not have sufficient data to evaluate legitimacy of 2 other spending categories, Reimbursements and Direct Pay. Despite this, the Indianapolis-based EdChoice is placing online ads like this one that link to

7 signs your body is living under high cortisol (& you don't realize it):

1. Waking at 3-4 AM.

Your eyes snap open. Mind instantly ON. Racing thoughts you can't shut off.

This isn't insomnia. It's cortisol spiking at the wrong time.

Chronic stress flips your hormone rhythm—so your body thinks 3 AM is morning.

But here's what most people don't realize about sign #2...

2. Stubborn belly fat.

You eat clean. You work out. The scale won't budge.

Chronic stress floods your body with cortisol—slowing your metabolism to survival mode.

Your body holds onto every pound around your middle.

And when that happens, sign #3 becomes inevitable...